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ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
Today at 12:56, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a crushing...
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UK anti-encryption law
There was some surprise in the comments of yesterday's post over the fact that the United Kingdom has effectively outlawed encryption: the UK will...
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Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
Child pornography is a toxic subject, but a very important one that cannot and should not be ignored. This is an attempt to bring...
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Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest
Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently (something Techdirt calls Censorship Crazy), appears...
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EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation
Today, the European Parliament ordered new legislation to regulate credit card companies' ability to refuse service. This regulation follows the unilateral and rightless cutoff...
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Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police
The movie subtitle fansite undertexter.se has been raided by the police and copyright industry. This marks an escalation of the war against sharing culture...
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The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This...
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How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
I spent this week in the European Parliament in Brussels. One of the seminars I attended was advertised as being a seminar on privacy,...
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Behind the scenes of the Pirate Bay trial
Process of law failed on so many accounts in the trial against the two operators of The Pirate Bay, its media spokesperson, and a...
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Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament
The Icelandic Pirate Party has entered Parliament. This is clear as all the votes have been counted, with the Pirate Party at 5.1% as...
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Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin
These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had...
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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout
In an unexpected turn of events, one of the key committees in the European Parliament voted recently to weaken a reform of the copyright...